Journal no. 3

 today i attended 2 talks - 1 on Research Design & Development, and 1 titled "Library 101".

Research Design & Development was mainly geared to PhD students, on how to narrow down your research topic, identifying a theoretical context and selecting research methods suitable to your topic.
but anyway it was useful.

"Library 101" was cool - it was held online in a virtual classroom (screenshot above). isn't technology amazing?
 the evening sun at 6.15pm was gorgeous but my camera phone couldn't capture it.
it looked kinda like this - the sky was still pale blue and cloudless, and the sun was still visible, surrounded by its own arena of pale orange. wacky.

got prepared prawns and prepared veggies at clearance prices from Carousel.
the prawns were mushy in the center.
not sure if because they were on the shelves for a long time or because i didn't cook them well enough. no stomach problems so far.

11.32pm edit:
still no stomach problems.

also saw this - Dr Steve Pinker, cognitive psychologist at Harvard, answering questions on Reddit.
what a beautiful mind!

some quotes from him:
"Wisdom consists in appreciating the preciousness and finiteness of our own existence, and therefore not squandering it; of being cognizant of what makes people everywhere tick, and therefore enhancing happiness and minimizing suffering; of being alert to limitations and flaws in our own judgments and decisions and passions, and thereby doing our best to circumvent them."

"After having written Better Angels I now have a stronger intellectual and moral commitment to Enlightenment humanism, classical liberalism, and the ideal of human rights, because I saw how those ideas were instrumental in bringing about the best things that have happened in human history -- the reduction of institutionalized violence, and the development of knowledge and technologies that have increasingly allowed human beings to flourish."